Attaching base stations to LANs

Key elements are:

• high enough bandwidth to support multimedia demands
  • Lucent Technologies Inc. - 10 Mbit/sec wireless LAN: http://www.wavelan.com/news/nw970422.htm
    The details are in the patent by Israel Bar-David and Rajeev Krishnamoorthy
    can be found at: http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/details?patent_number=5623511
• digital radios (perhaps soft radios)
  • Wideband receiver followed by DSP: http://www.aircom.com/southcom.html
  • "Digital receivers: The new wave for signal analysis" by Rodger H. Hosking, RF Design, April 1997, pp. 32-44.
  • provide multistandard, multiband communication with one radioavoid the problems of the current cellular, cordless, ... market
• reconfigurable electronics
  • support changing protocols
  • support much of the protocol processing in hardware